Dr. Orna Izakson
@orna.bsky.social
Climate, polycrisis, mental health, functional medicine, 🌱🌲🌻🌼. Pro-science licensed naturopathic dr (OR/AK), herbalist, ex environmental journalist. Love 🥾and 📷 wild places. 💔 about 🌎. 1st-gen US, 🇮🇱 fam. Born 320ppm. #Angret. She/her/doctor.
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naturopathic climate alliance - Dr. Orna Izakson
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For the past year I’ve been gathering resources on the climate crisis and its effects on health, mental health, food and herbal medicines. Find those resources here: ndclimate.org
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This is not original and I can't remember who said it (on this platform), but it resonated: Being contrary just to be contrarian (ie, "insipid contrarianism") doesn't make you an independent thinker, it makes you a teenager
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is not original and I can't remember who said it (on this platform), but it resonated: Being contrary just to be contrarian (ie, "insipid contrarianism") doesn't make you an independent thinker, it makes you a teenager
These really are amazing. Thanks, @tmigratorius.bsky.social. And to everyone else, you’re welcome.
December 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
These really are amazing. Thanks, @tmigratorius.bsky.social. And to everyone else, you’re welcome.
Bottom line: Covid vaccines help.
Getting boosters helps.
Covid vaccines targeting more than one mutation help more.
Immunity is better if you get the vaccine before getting an infection, rather than the other way around.
“Letting it rip“ is a bad strategy.
Getting boosters helps.
Covid vaccines targeting more than one mutation help more.
Immunity is better if you get the vaccine before getting an infection, rather than the other way around.
“Letting it rip“ is a bad strategy.
December 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Bottom line: Covid vaccines help.
Getting boosters helps.
Covid vaccines targeting more than one mutation help more.
Immunity is better if you get the vaccine before getting an infection, rather than the other way around.
“Letting it rip“ is a bad strategy.
Getting boosters helps.
Covid vaccines targeting more than one mutation help more.
Immunity is better if you get the vaccine before getting an infection, rather than the other way around.
“Letting it rip“ is a bad strategy.
December in my garden.
I 💚 Cascadia.
I 💚 Cascadia.
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
December in my garden.
I 💚 Cascadia.
I 💚 Cascadia.
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Man that is NOT gonna turn out for you the way you think
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Man that is NOT gonna turn out for you the way you think
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This is the hammer hitting the nail squarely on its head.
Jamelle Bouie posits that "constitutional originalist" just means "we don't think the reconstruction amendments are a real part of the constitution"
And the evidence just keeps piling up for that, doesn't it
And the evidence just keeps piling up for that, doesn't it
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is the hammer hitting the nail squarely on its head.
Houston*, we have a problem.
*also, everywhere else
*also, everywhere else
*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Houston*, we have a problem.
*also, everywhere else
*also, everywhere else
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The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
www.cnn.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
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NEW - The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.
As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.
The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
As federal data becomes less available, our journalists are doing shoe-leather reporting to provide readers with the precise numbers.
www.propublica.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
NEW - The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.
As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.
Every now and then I remember that Treat Williams is dead and it makes me sad.
youtu.be/oC9sEKTash8?...
youtu.be/oC9sEKTash8?...
Treat Williams in "HAIR" by Miloś Forman
YouTube video by THE MOMENTS / CHWILE
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December 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Every now and then I remember that Treat Williams is dead and it makes me sad.
youtu.be/oC9sEKTash8?...
youtu.be/oC9sEKTash8?...
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According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
This is literally unAmerican.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This is literally unAmerican.
Shabbat shalom, y’all.
December 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Shabbat shalom, y’all.
Vomit emoji.
Yes, it's a cult of personality.
Visitors to 116 national parks no longer get in for free on MLK Day or Juneteenth, federal holidays celebrating Black history (June 19 marks the end of slavery).
They will, however, now get in free on Trump’s birthday.
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Visitors to 116 national parks no longer get in for free on MLK Day or Juneteenth, federal holidays celebrating Black history (June 19 marks the end of slavery).
They will, however, now get in free on Trump’s birthday.
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Vomit emoji.
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Again, if this is a legitimate reason to kill someone (it isn’t), then there was nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And we know that can’t be right, because the USMCJ cites the killing of shipwrecked people **as its prototypical example** of an unlawful order.
4/ Even worse on these officials account, it seems if the third view is correct, that was a reason to kill the survivors.
You read that right, and I am not exaggerating.⤵️
A shipwrecked person beckoning others to come rescue them is a basis for killing them.
You read that right, and I am not exaggerating.⤵️
A shipwrecked person beckoning others to come rescue them is a basis for killing them.
December 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Again, if this is a legitimate reason to kill someone (it isn’t), then there was nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And we know that can’t be right, because the USMCJ cites the killing of shipwrecked people **as its prototypical example** of an unlawful order.
Truth.
I'm not sure that any of us have been able to fully process people who had some measure of power (Republicans in Congress, the Supreme Court, university presidents, high-powered lawyers, various CEOs) so casually surrendering it in ways that may not be easily reversible.
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Truth.
I hate this timeline so much.
If SCOTUS lets this pass, it will not stop here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
If SCOTUS lets this pass, it will not stop here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I hate this timeline so much.
If SCOTUS lets this pass, it will not stop here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
If SCOTUS lets this pass, it will not stop here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
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Pardon incoming 🙄
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Pardon incoming 🙄
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Rep. Jim Himes tells MS NOW the two survivors of that controversial boat strike did not have a radio, contradicting GOP claims:
"There was no radio. There were two individuals clinging to flotsam, that's what there was. There wasn't weaponry of any kind. There wasn't a radio."
"There was no radio. There were two individuals clinging to flotsam, that's what there was. There wasn't weaponry of any kind. There wasn't a radio."
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Rep. Jim Himes tells MS NOW the two survivors of that controversial boat strike did not have a radio, contradicting GOP claims:
"There was no radio. There were two individuals clinging to flotsam, that's what there was. There wasn't weaponry of any kind. There wasn't a radio."
"There was no radio. There were two individuals clinging to flotsam, that's what there was. There wasn't weaponry of any kind. There wasn't a radio."
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The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.
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How do the metabolic waste products get cleared from our brain? And how does this process intersect with the brain's immune system?
An exceptional review by
@jonykipnis.bsky.social
and colleagues
cell.com/neuron/fullt...
An exceptional review by
@jonykipnis.bsky.social
and colleagues
cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Resolving the mysteries of brain clearance and immune surveillance
This review by Kipnis et al. explores recent advances in brain fluid dynamics, emphasizing
CSF flow’s role in waste clearance, the glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic systems,
and neuroimmune interacti...
cell.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How do the metabolic waste products get cleared from our brain? And how does this process intersect with the brain's immune system?
An exceptional review by
@jonykipnis.bsky.social
and colleagues
cell.com/neuron/fullt...
An exceptional review by
@jonykipnis.bsky.social
and colleagues
cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Centuries.
But please tell me why you must use AI to see what you’d look like as a medieval princess.
But please tell me why you must use AI to see what you’d look like as a medieval princess.
Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Centuries.
But please tell me why you must use AI to see what you’d look like as a medieval princess.
But please tell me why you must use AI to see what you’d look like as a medieval princess.